NEW YORK (AP) — Edith Windsor, a widow who brought a landmark Supreme Court case that struck down parts of a federal law that banned gay marriage and led to federal recognition for same-sex spouses, died Tuesday. She was 88.Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. The cause of death wasn't given, but Windsor had struggled with heart issues for years."The world lost a tiny but tough-as-nails fighter for freedom, justice and equality," said her current spouse, Judith Kasen-Windsor. They married last year.Windsor became a gay rights pioneer after her first spouse, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The women had married legally in Canada in 2007 after spending more than 40 years together.

A married mother of two who had sex with two teens after luring them with naked pictures on Snapchat was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison — after she called the ordeal the “biggest regret of my life.” Brooke Lajiness, 38, of Lima Township, Mich., was sentenced Monday to four years and nine...

This is the moment an Arkansas man rammed into a Ten Commandments monument in front of the Little Rock Capitol grounds. In a Facebook live video of Wednesday’s incident, 32-year-old Michael Tate Reed can be heard yelling, “Freedom!” as he drives towards the monument, with the state’s Capitol clearly in the background. The video ends...